Static electricity shocks are more common in the winter because of the season's dry air. Friction between materials, like socks on carpet, builds up a static charge in low humidity. Using a humidifier ...

Crescent Energy is well-positioned after strategic asset divestitures and acquisitions across the Permian, Eagle Ford, and Uinta basins. CRGY improved EBITDA margins and reduced production breakevens, ...

Way back at the height of summer, we had a week where I had to announce the closures of four different local restaurants in a single week. We lost Mac’s, Seorabol, Tria, and Kraftwork at the very end ...

Virgil Ovid Hawkins, better known as superhero Static Shock, first graced the pages of Milestone Comics’ Static #1 in June 1993. The character was created by Dwayne McDuffie, Denys Cowan, Derek Dingle ...

Nonrenewable energy sources like fossil fuels are being depleted and will eventually run out. 91% of U.S. energy in 2023 came from nonrenewable sources including petroleum and natural gas. Despite ...

Static electricity can remove up to three-quarters of frost from a surface, which could save vast amounts of energy and millions of tonnes of antifreeze currently used to defrost vehicles. In 2021, ...

Tokyo, Japan – The exchange of water and heat between the Earth and its atmosphere determines climate zones and ecosystems, which in turn influence where essential human activities take place. While ...

The growing demand for energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in applications such as IoT, environmental monitoring, and smart cities has sparked exhaustive research into practical solutions ...

Frying a computer component with static is one of those things that very rarely ever happens. Yet it can happen, as I found out recently through personal experience — when building a new PC, I made a ...

One of the many announcements at the 2020 DC FanDome (remember those?) was news of a Static Shock movie coming from producer Michael B. Jordan, based on the electric-powered African American teen hero ...

We spent six months reporting an unprecedented look at AI’s energy demand . Here are a few things I learned. This week, we published Power Hungry, a package all about AI and energy. At the center of ...

Listen to the first notes of an old, beloved song. Can you name that tune? If you can, congratulations -- it's a triumph of your associative memory, in which one piece of information (the first few ...